digital music and the music business

Facebook Joins MySpace In Project Playlist Ban

Late last week MySpace responded to notices from the RIAA by banning all ProjectPlaylist widgets from its site. Yesterday Facebook followed suit.

"The RIAA initially contacted Facebook last summer requesting the removal of the Project Playlist application for copyright violation, and recently reopened those communications. We have forwarded the RIAA’s letters to Project Playlist so it can work directly with that organization and music labels on a resolution. In the meantime, the application must be removed to comply with the Facebook Platform Terms of Service...

Our hope and expectation is that the parties can resolve
their disagreements in a manner that satisfies the developer and
copyright holder, that continues to offer a great experience to music fans, and that doesn’t discourage other developers from using Platform to share their creativity and test new ideas.”

That Facebook held out longer than MySpace is a surprise to many.
Though perhaps Owen Van Natta, Facebook's former chief revenue officer,
who recently became the CEO of ProjectPlaylist still has a few friends
at the social networker.

This could prove a fatal blow for ProjectPlaylist, who until last
week had been growing rapidly. SonyBMG cut a deal to license music to
the playlist community on Saturday. But it appears that the other three
majors, who have been negotiationg with project playlist all Fall.
aren't as close to deals as had been rumored.

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Both Directv and the RIAA have sued many people now. Both Directv and the RIAA knew not all were guilty though and still accepted settlement money and a gag settlement. Where people were innocent, the US Department of Justice should have protected them from such a suit. People can access your home wireless network from on the street outside but you will pay the RIAA. People may buy legal and legitimate smart card programmers but Directv would sue and collect money none the less. So because justice permits such lawsuits and when they were innocent, that court complaint had to be untruthful and as such a fraud. Victims then became crime victims of the crime of fraud. The victim witness program ignored these crime victims in spite of the crime victims statute. For those who were innocent, they need to do just what justice has done. The next time they are a juror or a witness, ignore justice by jury nullification. Ignore justice by not being a state witness. This is the only thing which will send a strong enough message to put justice back to protecting the innocent from fraudulent lawsuits designed to collect money and silence the victims.